Rugs from Rags

Luxury rugs, from rags

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Rugs from Rags

and old t-shirts, and linens, and all sorts of wonderful fun with recycled, reused, and recovered textiles.

Rugs from Rags is the website where I write about textile art, including rugs (woven and knit), knitting in general, sewing, making flowers, painting lace for my wedding dress, and lots of other things in the vicinity of textile art.

I sell my work on the Karen Tiede Studio website.

The Book

Knitting Fabric Rugs, front cover

Original Rugs

Floating Gold Square, shown in Chapter 4 of Knitting Fabric Rugs.

About

Newcomb Studio Art Rug Loom, warp beam view

Making Masks Quickly

Stack of completed masks.

I made 20 masks using a video how-to, and I thought I was going to go out of my mind. The method was way too fiddly and there wasn’t any way to streamline it. I ran out of bias binding. I don’t want to go to the store to buy more, and I’m supposed to […]

Karen Tiede Studio

  • Original Art
  • Reproductions
  • Testing Team
Karen Tiede Studio is the roll-up of several artistic ventures. I started in chainsaw carving, moved to hand-knit rugs, added a vintage floor rug loom along the way, and then added reproductions of my art on home decor and fashion items, notably, dog beds.

I am fascinated by the ebb and flow of the recycle stream. My art uses materials you may never notice, and turns them into striking and beautiful products for your home.

--Karen Tiede

Take Another Look

The raw materials for my work come from the thrift shops and swap sheds of Eastern NC.

These are our clothes and linens, sorted and processed and knit or woven into something new and amazing, following traditional quilt patterns as inspiration.
KarenTiedeStudio on Pinterest
KarenTiede Studio on Pinterest
KarenTiedeStudio on Instagram
KarenTiede Studio on Instagram
KarenTiedeStudio on FB
KarenTiede Studio on FB
Karen Tiede on Houzz
KarenTiede on Houzz
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Meet the testing team!  Dogs (and cats) love the original art rugs; Molly and Nigel were trying to shift each other off a rug I made from test squares.   I've had dogs of my own since …

Want more color in your home?

Take a look around the site, and the store.

I may have exactly what you need. I do custom work, too, and I can have the rug images printed on LOTS of items for your home. We can find a way.

What I do…

Textile artist. (You're here.)
Participatory hula hooper.
Serious Pinterest marketing wizard.
Teach social media marketing at NCSU TTS and around the state.

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